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Indigenous Language (Solutions (Challenge4Change App ("Free app that…

- - - - I mean asking why we need to implement this language is a very short answer for people.
      - It would be nice to get a prototype to somehow communicate through a different channel WHILE promoting their own language.
    - - I really don't think this would apply. The challenge, I think, is quite narrow enough.
    - - It's going to be hard getting different people to gather together and try to communicate about learning a language.
    - - It would be hard to do immersion if the language itself inside the reserves are getting lost as well.
  - - - Weirdly, I think that if you do an interview of some sort or an activity, body language can help improve communication when practicing the language.
    - - Very simple way that could actually work. I can create different photos that may vary on the level of difficulty. Again, very basic... but would still work???? hopefully? Hopefully, it will not be forgotten?
    - - Good for process tracking and timeline?
    - - Getting what are know and what are not known, and make a comparison.
    - - Will this be literally talking to those who speak it and to those non-speakers?
  - - - I mean this is pretty self explanatory, and It could actually work.
      - People can document their lives and have like a dialogue within it. What if it's like Dear Data but with photos.
    - - What if you put controversial topics and then they have to communicate in one language... idk.
    - - I actually think this is a good idea. Putting people in a different setting and learning from there.
    - - I think this is going to be fun. HEHEHE. Instead of photos, words. So, it will be like a google translate fail turn into solutions LMAO.
      - People can build their own sentences and watch how it translates to English (or whatever language they want)
      - Like Madlibs and then turn into the Google Fail thing HAHAHAHA I LIKE THIS IDEA. IT'S FUN.
    - - Like having a museum/instant google earth with you and tell you stories in their language?
    - - This is more of a process, really.
      - Mapping.
    - - Putting trend examples with equivalent language context?
    - - Like what they did for Challenge4Change, build a database and then compare together what they know and what they don't know.
- - - - Synergiq Solutions, which built the app, has helped create other online communities, including Tutela, which connects English and French as a second language teachers across the country. Global News
      - Peltier said the community began to create a database, documenting and archiving older words that were no longer being used in everyday speech. Global News
      - The goal is to create an online community and resource for teachers and individuals both in and outside the Indigenous community. Global News
    - - "Despite the determined efforts of so many language keepers and linguists who preserve and teach Indigenous languages, Indigenous languages are in steady decline." CBC
        
        "There are many reasons, including the government of Canada's residential school policy, which stripped Indigenous people of our languages by separating children from their families" CBC
    - - Indigenous language loss in Canada is a "huge" problem ... More than 70 Indigenous languages are spoken in the country and the vast majority are endangered. As a result of residential schools and other policies aimed at assimilating Indigenous peoples, most communities have few speakers left" G&B
    - - "The number of people who are identifying fluency [in Indigenous languages] is dropping dramatically, almost in half in the last 20 years" Global News
      - "There's no Indigenous language that is technically safe. Every language ... is either unsafe or critically endangered" Global News
    - - The app is the first step to attempt to save languages that are on the brink of disappearing. Global News.
      - Getting that knowledge online involves a group of Anishinaabemowin speakers sitting together over coffee and going through scenarios -- such as making a meal in the kitchen -- in the language, then meticulously uploading words and phrases online. G&B
      - For now, he said, the app is a way that indigenous youth can get in touch with their culture and non-Indigenous people can contribute to reconciliation. G&B
    - - "Nor everybody has a grandmother or a grandfather now that speaks the language, they may have a neighbour but they're not necessarily accessible" CBC
    - - Regarding TRC Indigenous Languages, "Details remain vague. Will original languages of this country receive the same constitutional protections as English and French? Will the government provide sufficient funds for Indigenous language revitalization and preservation, as the TRC envisioned?"
      - "Whether the government intervenes or not, the more pressing question facing Indigenous peoples: can we as individuals find the time to nurture communities of speakers?" CBC
      - The Wiikwemkoong initiative comes at a time when restoring Indigenous language is vital and timely. The final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said one of the impacts of residential schools was language loss, enforced through physical abuse and felt through generations. G&M
  - - - Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reassured the Assembly of First Nations that his government would soon enact its long promised Indigenous Languages Act. CBC
    - - "The grandparents and the elders in the community have made it a point that the language needs to be prioritized and passed on to the younger generations, so they've begun some work and provided direction to council to ensure that it's prioritized and that programs are developed and that it's introduced into a school setting" Global News
      - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended Indigenous languages must be recognized as "a fundamental and valued element of Canadian culture and society". CBC
      - "Because our languages are more than words: they help us define who we are, on our own terms." CBC
      - "For those of us who just grew up speaking English or just grew up speaking French, we don't necessarily think of a connection between our language and our identity or our language and our land or territory" ... while for Indigenous peoples, "there's a very strong connection between the language that they speak, the way that they see themselves as people and the territory that they occupy. So the loss of that connection is felt very acutely" G&M
    - - What further filled me with yearning was the laughter. Teasing and joking, so much part of our culture, seemed richer when our people speak Anishinaabemowin ... It became the hole in my heart, not speaking my mother tongue. And only one person stood in the way of healing it. CBC
      - "I hope to enrol in an immersion course this summer -- it seems the only way I can stop my English brain from taking over is to immerse myself in Anishinaabemowin. It scares me. I know too well how it feels to stand outside a circle of language speakers, a dumb smile masking my incomprehension." CBC
    - - "I don't speak the language, even though my great-grandmother and grandparents spoke fluently. They were proud Anishinaabe, but they didn't pass the language on. I imagine they believed their children would have more opportunities if they spoke English. I assume racism and pressures to assimilate were also to blame" CBC
    - - "If a person has their language, has their identity, they're in a better place to be productive members of society" Peltier
      - "Our goal is to obviously revitalize the language and art community, but also to provide our neighbours a tool and a resource that they can also access, to recognize that there is another language that is spoken in this territory" ... "There's a role for everyone to ensure that our language survives" G&B
- - - - "People and animals are classified as animate, but so are other things an English speaker thinks of as non-living: a rock, a drum, a pipe, a pot." CBC
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